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This Is Not a Game is the extraordinary untold story of the internet’s first conspiracy theory, the legend of Ong’s Hat. Marc Fennell will dive deep into a previously unexplored world of tech hippies, eccentric web subcultures and simmering paranoia, uncovering how this tongue-in-cheek artistic experiment backfired on its creator and went on to influence much of what’s wrong with the internet today.

For over a decade, Taylor Lorenz has been the authority on internet culture, documenting its far-reaching effects on all corners of our lives. Her reporting is serious yet entertaining and illuminates deep truths about ourselves and the lives we create online. In her debut book, Extremely Online, she reveals how online influence came to upend the world, demolishing traditional barriers and creating whole new sectors of the economy. Lorenz shows this phenomenon to be one of the most disruptive changes in modern capitalism.

Following Jason's evolution into a Keeper, he finds his fledgling city once again in turmoil. A new and deadly enemy threatens the Twilight Throne - one that has no difficulty contending with Jason and the members of Original Sin. Jason must work quickly to consolidate his city's power. That means securing the villages within the Twilight Throne's influence, finding a steady stream of income, and growing the city's military strength.

Since 2003, this sci-fi virtual world has been ruled by player-led governments commanding tens of thousands of real people. The conflict and struggle for power between these diverse governments has led to wars, espionage, and battles fought by thousands of people from nations all over the world. There have been climactic last stands, wars for honor and revenge, and spies who caused more damage than a fleet of warships.

Learn how to separate internet fact from fiction. We live in the information age, giving us access to every datum ever collected and every opinion its originator thought fit to share. But with this newfound access to information comes a new challenge. Namely, how can you tell what information is true and what is false? In Is This Wi-Fi Organic? Dave Farina, author and science expert from the YouTube channel Professor Dave Explains, is here to help you fight confirmation bias and logical fallacies.

If you've ever made a secure purchase with your credit card over the internet, then you have seen cryptography, or "crypto", in action. From Stephen Levy - the author who made "hackers" a household word - comes this account of a revolution that is already affecting every citizen in the 21st century. Crypto tells the inside story of how a group of "crypto rebels" - nerds and visionaries turned freedom fighters - teamed up with corporate interests to beat Big Brother and ensure our privacy on the internet.

The Victorian Internet tells the colorful story of the telegraph's creation and remarkable impact and of the visionaries, oddballs, and eccentrics who pioneered it, from eighteenth-century French scientist Jean-Antoine Nollet to Samuel F. B. Morse and Thomas Edison. The electric telegraph nullified distance and shrank the world quicker and further than ever before or since, and its story mirrors and predicts that of the Internet in numerous ways.

Mary Aiken is the world's leading expert in forensic cyberpsychology - a discipline that combines psychology, criminology, and technology to investigate the intersection where technology and human behavior meet. In this, her first book, Aiken has created a starting point for all future conversations about how the Internet is shaping development and behavior, societal norms and values, children, safety, security, and our perception of the world.

Entre 1960 y 1996, Guatemala sufrió las consecuencias de una espantosa y larga guerra civil, la cual dejó un profundo impacto en este país americano. El llamado Genocidio Guatemalteco, donde fallecieron más de 200,000 personas, es un claro ejemplo de ello.

What is it like to grow up with a camera in your face 24/7? To have your childhood moments sold as “content” to millions online? What happens when someone who works in a largely unregulated multi-billion-dollar industry sells away their childhood and has no financial safety net as an adult? What does it feel like to have your private moments—your medical diagnoses, your first period, your first break up, your tantrums, potty-training, and breastfeeding-weaning—broadcast to an audience of millions?

Tras muchos alzamientos e intentos, y después de lograda la paz de la Gran Colombia en 1829, Ecuador alcanzaría realmente su independencia en 1830, habiendo sido designado presidente de la República el general venezolano Juan José Flores quien gobernó durante cinco años, reafirmando la emancipación y el espíritu de la declaración del 10 de agosto de 1809. Sobre todo lo que pasó en Ecuador para alcanzar su libertad.

What would life be like if we could buy and sell things online without any governmental regulation or control? That concept is what comprises Silk Road. Silk Road wasn't just an online black marketplace where illicit goods could be sold; it was also a marketplace where you could purchase these illicit goods anonymously. It may have made us reconsider just how much governmental control is really in existence because the power of government control has increased so slowly that we haven't really noticed.

Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth explain how we can better embed human principles into machine code - without halting the advance of data-driven scientific exploration.

Enclavada en la región norte de Sudamérica, Guyana es un país heredero de las tribus indígenas arawak, de cuya lengua proviene su nombre: Tierra de agua. Rodeado de un clima tropical y dotado de una amplia planicie costera y una región selvática rica en recursos minerales, el territorio guyanés posee diversos fenómenos geográficos tales como antiguos cordones montañosos, una abundante red hidrográfica y extensos bosques, que se han salvado de la tala indiscriminada de árboles.

Calificado como "la más memorable y alta ocasión que vieron los pasados siglos" por Cervantes, que incluso peleó allí, este audiolibro repasará los sucesos acaecidos el 7 de Octubre de 1571 en el golfo de Lepanto, cuando frente a la ciudad de Naupacto, se enfrentaron los turcos otomanos contra una coalición cristiana, llamada Liga Santa, formada por el Reino de España, Venecia, Génova, y los Estados Pontificios.

Restoring Our Sanity Online is the entertaining, informative, and frequently jaw-dropping social reset by Mark Weinstein, contemporary tech leader, privacy expert, and one of the visionary inventors of social networking. This book is for all of us. Casual and heavy users of social media, parents, teachers, students, techies, entrepreneurs, investors, and elected officials. Restoring Our Sanity Online is the catapult to an exciting, enriching, and authentic future. Listeners will embark on a captivating journey leading to an inspiring and actionable reinvention.

Any business project needs a good online marketing, it is one of the most important functions of business management. A business plan is what makes it possible to manage a company and an digital marketing is a key element of the business plan. It identifies the best business opportunities for the company and describes how to achieve and maintain market positions. Through this audiobook, the listener will follow the development of a online marketing, see in detail the different steps of an Internet marketing.

La reseña de la historia de este país caribeño que Usted no puede perderse. Desde sus pasados remotos, su etapa de larga dominación española y su enorme lucha por la independencia, hasta su vida republicana y moderna.

Presentamos la historia completa de una de las naciones latinoamericanas de mayor riqueza cultural y tradición histórica, en cuyo vasto territorio se desarrollaron algunas de las más encarnizadas batallas durante la Conquista, la Independencia y la ulterior Revolución mexicana.

La entrega inicial de la fascinante historia de la nación más poderosa de la Tierra. Enfocada en los inicios de la población en su actual territorio, este audiolibro relata la historia de aquellas tribus primigenias antes de la llegada de los europeos, que vivían en sociedades bajo un régimen patriarcal, se regían por leyes, construían viviendas, practicaban la agricultura, explotaban algunos metales y poseían rudimentarias industrias.